pastor

• pastour (obsolete)

From Middle English pastour, from Old French pastor (Modern French pasteur), from Latin pāstor.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːstə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpæstɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ), -æstə(ɹ)
• Homophone: pasta (Australia, New Zealand, Northern England)

pastor (plural pastors)

1. (now rare) Someone who tends to a flock of animals: synonym of shepherd.
2. Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people.

   Synonym: shepherd

   Hypernym: cleric

   Coordinate terms: imam, guru, rabbi, sangha

3. (Protestantism) A minister or priest in a church.

   Synonyms: elder, pastor-teacher

   Hypernym: cleric

4. (Roman Catholicism, US) The main priest serving a parish.

   Synonym: parish priest

   Hypernym: cleric

   Coordinate term: parochial vicar

5. A bird, the rosy starling.
   • 1944, Country Life, volume 95, page 820:

     Agricultural officers have put it on record that the pastor must on balance be considered beneficial on account of the vast quantities of locusts which it destroys.

• al pastor

pastor (third-person singular simple present pastors, present participle pastoring, simple past and past participle pastored)

1. (Christianity, transitive, intransitive, stative) To serve a congregation as pastor
   • 2009 January 21, Shaila Dewan, “Epic Campaign Divided Family, Then United It”, in New York Times‎:

     As they pastored churches in Georgia and Texas, they supported talented black politicians who were unable to win statewide office.

• Portas, Sproat, asport, portas, sap rot, saprot

Inherited from Old Catalan pastor, from Latin pāstōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

pastor m (plural pastors)

1. shepherd, herder
2. pastor, priest

• pastor alemany

• pastura
• pasturar
• péixer

• “pastor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pastor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “pastor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pastor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Spanish pastor. Doublet of pastores.

• Hyphenation: pas‧tor
• IPA^(key): /pasˈtoɾ/

pastór

1. herder
2. (Catholicism) parish priest; pastor
3. (Protestantism) pastor

• pasto
• pastora
• pastores

From Dutch pastoor, from Middle Dutch pastōor, from Latin pāstor, from pāscō (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).

• IPA^(key): /pastor/
• Hyphenation: pas‧tor

pastor (plural pastor-pastor)

1. (Christianity, Roman Catholicism) parish priest

• “pastor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From pāscō (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːs.tor/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.tor/,

pāstor m (genitive pāstōris, feminine pāstrīx); third declension

1. A person who tends sheep; shepherd.
   • 25 BC, Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4

     Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
     Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.

     The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
     the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

2. A Christian who takes care of the spiritual needs of other Christians
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Ephesians 4:11

     et ipse dedit quosdam quidem apostolos quosdam autem prophetas alios vero evangelistas alios autem pastores et doctores

     And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors

Third-declension noun.

• pāstōrius
• pāstōrālis

• pāscitō
• pāscō
• pāscor
• pāscuus

• “pastor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pastor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pastor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “pastor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:

pastor

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Borrowed from Latin pāstor.

pastor m (definite singular pastoren, indefinite plural pastorer, definite plural pastorene)

1. (religion) pastor

• “pastor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin pāstor.

pastor m (definite singular pastoren, indefinite plural pastorar, definite plural pastorane)

1. (religion) pastor

• “pastor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Occitan pastor, from Latin accusative pāstorem (Latin pāstor).

Cf. also pastre from the Latin nominative.

Cognates include French pasteur, Norman pâteu', Catalan pastor.

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pastor m (plural pastors)

1. shepherd
2. pastor, priest, minister

• pàisser, pàsquer

• anhèl
• feda
• moton
• oelha
• oelhièr

• pastur

Borrowed from Latin pāstor, pāstōrem. Compare the inherited doublet pastre.

pastor oblique singular, m (oblique plural pastors, nominative singular pastre, nominative plural pastor)

1. shepherd
2. (Christianity) pastor

• French: pasteur
• Norman: pâteu'
• → Middle English: pastour
  • English: pastor

From the accusative declension of Latin pāstor, pāstōrem. Cf also the form pastre from the nominative.

pastor m (oblique plural pastors, nominative singular pastors, nominative plural pastor)

1. shepherd
2. paster, priest, minister

• Occitan: pastor

Borrowed from German Pastor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpas.tɔr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -astɔr
• Syllabification: pas‧tor

pastor m pers

1. (Protestantism) pastor (in Protestant churches)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ksiądz

• pastor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pastor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

pastor

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From Old Galician-Portuguese pastor, from Latin pāstōrem.

• Hyphenation: pas‧tor

pastor m (plural pastores, feminine pastora, feminine plural pastoras)

1. herdsman; herder (someone who tends livestock)
2. (in particular) shepherd (someone who tends sheep)
3. herding dog (any of several breeds of dog originally used to herd livestock)
   1. Ellipsis of pastor alemão.
4. (figurative, chiefly religion) shepherd (one who watches over or guides others)
5. (Protestantism) the chief clergyman of a Protestant congregation: a pastor, minister or parson

Borrowed from German Pastor, from Latin pāstor. Compare the inherited doublet păstor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpas.tor/

pastor m (plural pastori)

1. (Protestantism) pastor, priest

• pastoral
• pastorală

• preot

• pastor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Pastor (shepherd)

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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Pastor (priest)

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Inherited from Old Spanish pastor, from Latin pāstōrem. Compare Italian pastore.

• IPA^(key): /pasˈtoɾ/
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: pas‧tor

pastor m (plural pastores, feminine pastora, feminine plural pastoras)

1. shepherd
2. herder
3. pastor, priest

• → Cebuano: pastor
• → Northern Puebla Nahuatl: paxtol
• → Tagalog: pastol, pastor

• “pastor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• Audio:

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pastor c

1. pastor, priest
2. indefinite plural of pasta

• → Finnish: pastori

• portas, postar, ropats, sporta

Borrowed from Spanish pastor. Doublet of pastol, an early borrowing.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /pasˈtoɾ/
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: pas‧tor

pastór (feminine pastora, Baybayin spelling ᜉᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜇ᜔)

1. (Catholicism) parish priest; pastor
2. (Protestantism) church minister; pastor

• Pastor
• pastoral

• “pastor”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From Latin pāstor, pāstōrem. Compare Italian pastore.

pastor m (plural pastori) or pastor m (plural pasturi)

1. shepherd